[Andy Mees]

not so guys

FCP 6 what’s new clearly states:

External Video Monitoring
You can now output to external video interfaces whose settings don

[Andy Mees]

most are 1 license per seat

[Andy Mees]

the same settings can be found on Bonsai’s webpage at https://www3.telus.net/bonsai/Step-by-Step.html … with pictures

[Andy Mees]

3x the functionality in many regards but what it wont do is give you a color critical reference signal to an Apple 23″cinema display … if you have abroadcast HD monitor you ar ecertainly good to go with one of these babies, but if you are looking for lower cost access to a reference signal with existing equipment then the MXO is still playing in a league with little if any competition

[Andy Mees]

nice!

thanks Nick 🙂

[Andy Mees]

use the find command, cmd-F
then you can choose to find “all used” or “all unused” amongst other options

after that you could use a label color to flag those found clips , or just separate them to different bins… but otherwise no, no way to see which are used or unused

[Andy Mees]

FCP’s slowmo ain’t all that regardless of the source format, tho surely HDV won’t help.
you might want to try using the compressor method for a higher quality slomo
https://proapptips.com/tips/article.php?story=20050706012856432

or look at ReVision Effect’s Twixtor or RelaViz’s ReTimer

[Andy Mees]

the fundamental source code for the app you need is freely available in Apple’s developer support webpages … its called Movie Assembler

MovieAssembler

Requires: Mac OS X 10.4. Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 or later. Xcode 2.1 or later.

The MovieAssembler sample application demonstrates the use of several new
capabilities in Final Cut Pro 5.1.2:

– AppleEvent commands to communicate with and control Final Cut Pro.
– QuickTime metadata to identify and process movie files.
– Version 3 of the Final Cut Pro XML Interchange Format to access and
modify the contents of sequences in Final Cut Pro project files.

Once configured properly, MovieAssembler monitors a watch folder for
newly copied media files. It uses ID tag(s) stored as metadata to specify
if and where a particular media file should be inserted into a selected
sequence.

you may need to download and install the latest Developer tools to build the application, and of course you will have to write any additional code needed to adapt this to your particular workflow

[Andy Mees]

working fine for me here

[Andy Mees]

it means don’t switch the settings whilst actively connected to another device via iLink (firewire). hot plugging and unplugging whilst firewire devices are powered up is not encouraged as you may seriously damage the equipment

so turn off camera/deck, disconnect iLink cable from rear, turn on camera, change setting

… whilst I personally continue to plug and unplug firewire devices to my hearts content whilst they are powered (hot), one of these days I’m going to fry my firewire/iLink port or worse on my expensive computer / disk / deck / camera, and how foolish I am going to feel then.